Karl Malone, former Utah Jazz and Louisiana Tech great…and frequent subject of FOTP Photo Essays, who serves as some sort of strength and basketball operations coach for his alma mater, got a little angry with the visiting Nevada Wolfpack Saturday night during their game against the Bulldogs.  You see, Karl donated the money for the fine slab of parquet you see above and he takes a little personal pride in it…so much so that when the Wolfpack players dared to scuff up his court with their folding chairs during timeouts, Karl decided to remedy the obvious mistep in etiquitte and dispense of the chairs accordingly.

Karl Malone wasn’t particularly thrilled with Nevada bringing small folding chairs onto “his” court during the media timeouts of Saturday’s Tech-Nevada basketball game at the Thomas Assembly Center. Bringing chairs or stools onto the court during timeouts is standard practice all around the country, but Malone voiced his displeasure, and the Nevada staff was told staff to keep the chairs off the floor (which was sanded and sealed in December). Nevada continued to use its chairs throughout the rest of the first half, and may or may not have antagonized Malone by using some extra oomph when setting the chairs on the hardwood.

So during halftime Malone grabbed Nevada’s portable furniture and threw it in a dumpster outside the arena. Allegedly.

Louisiana Tech Deputy Athletics Sirector Bruce Van De Velde denied that the act actually took place as it is now being relayed, sort of.

It’s a little embellished. He (Karl) does care about that court.

So yeah, he totally did it.

[HT: The NewsStar]